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After forking GNOME Shell (Cinnamon), Mutter (Muffin) and GDM 2.0 (MDM), the Linux Mint team has forked Nautilus and the result is Nemo, a file manager which is now used by default in Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition.

Initially, Nemo used to look the same as the patched SolusOS Nautilus so I didn't write about how to install it since it was basically the same thing under a different name.

But Nemo has evolved, gaining many new features and under the hood optimizations and tweaks. Here are some of the features available for Nemo file manager (for the version available in GIT / Cinnamon Nightly PPA) that aren't included in Nautilus 3.4:

Install the latest Nemo file manager from GIT in Ubuntu

Or, if you want the latest features (but probably less stability and more bugs), install the latest Nemo file manager from GIT in Linux Mint or Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 or 13.04 by using the Cinnamon Nightly PPA:

Nemo shows up as "Files" in the menu, just like Nautilus so it's a bit hard to find in the menu / Dash or whatever you're using. So search for "Nemo" and launch the first "Files" app that shows up, that will (hopefully) be Nemo file manager.

After you log out and log back in, you'll notice that Nemo draws the desktop instead of Nautilus. If you want to continue to use Nautilus for drawing the desktop instead of Nemo, do the following:

- Run the following command so Nemo shows up in the Startup Applications list (it's hidden by default):